Author: BooMan

Discussing Civil War With Iraqis

George Packer has a big, fat, 16 webpage article in The New Yorker about the Iraqis that decided to work with the occupiers Americans when they arrived in Iraq. His article starts out in the Palestine Hotel, which is the only...

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Let’s Play Cause and Effect

Cause: [Sen. Diane] Feinstein said [San Diego U.S. attorney Carol] Lam notified the Justice Department on May 10, 2006, that she planned to serve search warrants on Kyle Dustin “Dusty” Foggo, who’d resigned two...

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A Look Forward at 2008

I want to talk about something that concerns me. Every two years a third of the Senate comes up for re-election. In 2008, the Democrats have a huge advantage because only 12 of their seats at risk, while 21 Republican seats...

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This Week in Higher Broderism

David Broder, August 19, 1998, Echoes of Nixon (Lexis-Nexis): Seven months too late, President Bill Clinton has offered a semi-honest account of his relationship with Monica Lewinsky in a desperate bid to hold onto his office...

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The Insouciance of Fred Hiatt

Fred Hiatt wants us to take him seriously as he takes a look back at the Washington Post’s decision to support the invasion of Iraq. See, Mr. Hiatt is disappointed at the administration’s ‘breathtaking and...

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